Writing about entertainment was approached by a female villain archetype

Chapter 282 Magic
Speaking of which, Xu Chuan would sometimes be unable to restrain himself and buy a bunch of unnecessary things on a whim.

Among these "unnecessary" things are books.

That's not to say that the knowledge in these books is useless, but when Xu Chuan bought them, he was so excited that he would be able to read them thoroughly. After buying them, without exception, they were left on the bookshelves to gather dust.

But "eating ashes" doesn't stop him from buying books on a whim at some point.

Buy books, eat dust, buy books again, eat dust again.Knowledge was constantly circulating around him, but it just couldn't get into his brain.

Xu Chuan is like this, and so are thousands of ordinary people like him.

Man is a very impulsive animal.

At the same time, it is an animal that likes to follow the trend and compare.

Under such circumstances, the extremely popular "Three-Body Problem" on the Internet has naturally become the subject of impulse, following the trend, and even comparison.

People who have a hobby of reading occasionally will buy it impulsively.

Some so-called social elites, when they are so popular and sought after by so many celebrities, also have the need to buy them and show off on Moments or social media platforms.

Of course, in addition, there are indeed some science fiction lovers and reading enthusiasts who have more practical needs for buying books.

Due to the superposition of many reasons, the sales data of "Three-Body" exploded.

Three hours after it went on sale, the online sales of "The Three-Body Problem" had reached 15 copies.

What is the concept of 15 copies?

Let’s put it this way, the total first printing of “The Three-Body Problem” was only 20 copies, and this time three-quarters were sold directly.

The question comes again, what is the concept of first printing 20 copies?

This is the result of taking into account many factors such as Xu Chuan's reputation and the quality of the books.

If it had been anyone else, the first printing of 5 copies would have been considered a mass printing.Most best-selling authors have a first printing of around [-] copies.

Those that are not popular are because everyone has their own needs, ranging from a thousand to a large, depending on your financial resources.

Whether it is the earth or the blue star, this is the situation now for physical books.

According to the more popular binning standards on the Blue Star market.If a physical book sells more than 5 copies in a year, it can be considered a bestseller.

If the cumulative sales in a year exceed 20 copies, it is a best-selling book.

If the cumulative sales in a year exceed 50 copies, it can be said to be a super bestseller.

Judging from this classification, "The Three-Body Problem" has accumulated a total of 3000 million domestic and more than 300 million foreign copies on earth. It can only be said that it is worthy of being a "Three-Body" with countless big book fans!

Of course, this classification is not accurate, and the type and nature of the book must also be considered.Some academic books are considered very popular if they can sell 2 copies.

The sales data of literary books such as science fiction novels are definitely much higher than those of academic books.

But even so, the sales performance of 10,000+ physical books can still be regarded as excellent.This is an achievement that is beyond the reach of quite a few contemporary physical book writers.

Therefore, when some fellow writers saw that Xu Chuan's book sold 15 copies within three hours of being put on the shelves, their glasses almost fell off.

I'm jealous!
Jealous!
hate it!

At this time, they only had one thought in their minds, and that was, "Damn it, being famous means it's good, but being famous means that there are people who will take advantage of you!"

What makes them even more distressed is that 15 copies in three hours is not Xu Chuan's limit, but the limit of online stocking.

As I just said, there are only 20 copies in total. Excluding those given away by Xu Chuan, the remaining goods of about 5 are all sold offline, and they are no longer available online.

Therefore, if you want to buy "The Three-Body Problem" now, you can only buy it in large offline bookstores.

Ever since, more fun has come.

Bookstores that usually rarely see queues now have long queues, asking people to buy "The Three-Body Problem".

Such a hot situation has forced the bookstore to activate a sales restriction mode. One person can only buy two copies, otherwise there will not be enough to sell.

Things are far from over here.

An even more magical situation has arisen. Only a small part of the people who queued up to buy books actually bought them for themselves.

Most of the people are purchasing agents. Now they queue up to buy and then directly deliver the goods to the real buyers at a higher price.

At this time, a group of people couldn't stand it anymore.

"Damn it, why do you need a purchasing agent to buy a novel now?"

"Good guys, one or two of them are pretending to be educated people, right? Do they really like reading so much? Don't they usually hold their mobile phones and browse non-stop?"

"Damn it, is this too magical?"

Is it magical?
I thought things were already magical at this point.

But the extent of human outrageousness is still far beyond everyone’s imagination.

The day after the release of "The Three-Body Problem", which was the 14th, scalpers began to appear on the Internet.

On some second-hand trading websites, brand-new and unopened "The Three-Body Problem" is sold at double or even triple the price.

Darling, Xu Chuan didn't even notice what was going on. There's nothing that these scalpers can't speculate on, right?
Can you even speculate on any novel?
You guys taught me, Mr. Xu, a good lesson.

In desperation, he directly updated a post on Weibo, to the effect that everyone should stop buying books from scalpers. He had already contacted the publishing house to reprint it, and everyone would be able to buy it soon. There is really no need to waste this money. money.

But, this Weibo is not of much use after it is released.

Hype has always been about "chasing the rise, not the fall." This theory is also applicable to scalpers' speculation this time.

What have you printed so that everyone can buy it?
When a new mobile phone is released, everyone knows that it will be available in stock soon, so why do they have to pay a higher price to buy it?
Isn’t it just to get it earlier than others?

Isn't it just to prove that you are better than others?
Ever since, another voice appeared on the Internet, that is, the so-called "One Edition Once".

What does one edition mean?
Anyone who has bought a book knows that there is a lot of information on the copyright page of the book. Of course, no one usually reads these things.It's different now. With the addition of scalpers, data such as editions and printing times that no one usually pays attention to have been popularized by them.

Finally, we came to the conclusion that the first printing of the first edition of the book has special commemorative significance.

Does this have a commemorative significance?
Are you reading the book or looking at the copyright page?
Anyway, Xu Chuan himself didn’t see any commemorative significance.

But again, some people may not see it that way.

You have to find some special meaning in the meaningless place.Like all kinds of internet celebrity items, "Three-Body" is now a super internet celebrity item.

Another example is the Peony brand cigarette numbered 333.

Anyone who has been in the tobacco industry knows how nonsense this stuff is, but I can’t stand the fact that some people believe it.

What's the point of printing more copies of "The Three-Body Problem" on the back?

We feel just like the first edition, the taste of paper and ink are different, it is so authentic!
Only when you get a book that is published once can you be called unique, and can you be called a person at the forefront of the trend.

Chaos.

Totally messed up.

Such a noisy scene made Xu Chuan dumbfounded, but there was nothing he could do.

There is really nothing we can do, Weibo has also posted it, everything that needs to be said has been said, what can you do if people don't listen?
Borrowing the phrase "What does it have to do with destroying you" in "The Three-Body Problem", this wave is called "Buying The Three-Body Problem, what does it have to do with you, the author of The Three-Body Problem whose surname is Xu?"

Do you know what "Three Body" is?
I advise you not to meddle in other people's business.

At this time, Xu Chuan was sitting on the sofa at home, while Qiu Yicheng was lying next to him playing with his mobile phone.

After playing around, she couldn't help but said with a smile: "You said after seeing this scene, have you considered returning to your old career and writing a wave of online articles?"

"Write online articles? No, no, no, I definitely won't be able to write online articles. I was a bastard back then, and I am still a bastard now. It's better not to be embarrassed." Xu Chuan immediately smiled and shook his head after hearing this.

"That was then, and now is now. Think about it, it's not necessarily because your writing was not good, but because you didn't have traffic. With your current reputation, you will never be a loser."

"What Teacher Qiu said makes sense." Xu Chuan nodded seriously. Although his words were serious, he unknowingly went up the mountain for a spring outing.

Seeing that Xu Chuan was in trouble, Qiu Yicheng lightly slapped his paw and said, "It's not convenient today~~"

"What's the inconvenience?" Xu Chuan asked deliberately.

"Hmph~~" Qiu Yicheng understood this and wrinkled her nose and let out a sweet sigh.

"By the way, Cai Meng told me that there was news from the later stage that your "Sugar" MV was ready?" Xu Chuan said and stopped.

It was originally a habitual spring outing to climb mountains, but it wasn't really for doing anything specific.

Moreover, it is quite rude to point a gun at the back of someone's head during a spring outing.

Feeling that Xu Chuan had become less polite, Qiu Yicheng moved her head slightly and said, "It's done. It was done yesterday."

"Remy has been busy with promotion matters for so long. What progress has it made?"

"It's hard to say, anyway, everything is ready and all we need is Dongfeng to release the MV. This time the battle is indeed bigger than the last one. I hope we can get good results." Qiu Yicheng said and turned over.

"What does it mean to hope for good results? There must be... It's not that it's inconvenient, let's talk about business."

"I've finished talking to you about the serious business. I want to talk to him now."

"Say it in advance, let's just talk. If you can't talk well without being anxious, it's not good to always grit your teeth and talk." Xu Chuan said immediately after hearing this.

"Am I that kind of person?" Qiu Yicheng replied, then started chatting with her cheeks puffed up.

As time passed, her tone became more intense.

15 minutes later... a cry of pain came from the living room.

"Qiu Yicheng, you are a dog, are you using it as a teething stick?!!"

"We had a good chat. Who asked him to spit at me?" Qiu Yicheng said plausibly and in a vague tone.

Xu Chuan:······

At the same time, in the president's office of Ziyi Media, the newly promoted CEO Remi was half-lying on the sofa, reading "The Three-Body Problem" bought at a high price from scalpers.

It doesn't matter.

The more he looked at her, the more embarrassed he became.

I just felt that I had been deceived, and that I had been deceived by Xu Chuan.

Speaking of which, after the crew changed its name from "Three Star Copper Tower" to "Wandering Blue Star", she already felt bad.Now after seeing "The Three-Body Problem", I have confirmed my thoughts.

At this moment, Xu Chuan's words when he came to chat with her and said he wanted to take over the mess of "Three Stars Copper Tower" kept echoing in her ears. "I took over the project just to tell you that just because you can't shoot "Samsung Copper Tower" doesn't mean that I can't do it well."

"There are some reasons why I took over this project. You also know that Bai Tianyu and Du Wenyu are my good friends, and I am a very emotional person.

Even if I lose money, I still have to deal with Su Quanxing and his son. I believe that you Ziyi Media will have a way to deal with Su Quanxing and his son, right? "

Thinking of this, Remi couldn't stand reading anymore.

He put the book aside and covered his face, which was getting hot, with both hands.

Shameful.

I'm really so ashamed that I can't be ashamed anymore.

She wasn't angry about Xu Chuan deceiving her. They were a "hostile force" at the time, so they were naturally trying to deceive him.

What really made her uncomfortable was that she felt like a clown in front of Xu Chuan.

After all, she really believed Xu Chuan's lies at that time. She really thought that Xu Chuan at that time wanted to prove what he said: "Just because you can't shoot "Samsung Copper Tower" well, it doesn't mean that I can't shoot it well." Bold words and great ambitions.

At that time, she only thought that Xu Chuan had always been confident, and it was normal to have this idea.

Now, tell yourself the reality of Chi Guoguo.

Xu Chuan, that stinky guy who cheated people to death without repaying his life, didn't even have the slightest idea of ​​filming "Three Stars Copper Tower".

His intention from the beginning was definitely to make "The Wandering Blue Star".

She didn't know how long it would take to publish two books, but it would definitely be long enough. This would be enough for Xu Chuan to have a much better story than "Three Stars Copper Tower".

Yes yes.

When has that guy ever suffered a loss? Can he do such a thing as taking over the mess?

"Oh~~oh~~Oh my God~~It's so embarrassing~~It's really embarrassing! He must have looked at me like a fool. What can I do? Who would like a fool!"

It is said that when people are extremely ashamed, they want to find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

There was definitely no hole for Remi to drill in the office, so she could only drill with her head on the sofa, as if she wanted to drill a hole in the sofa.

Of course, it is still difficult for Remy, with his chubby head, to achieve this kind of achievement.

So, after drilling for a while, she stopped moving. After calming down, she took out her mobile phone and found Xu Chuan's number, and dialed it after hesitation.

The phone rang several times before being answered, and Xu Chuan's brisk voice came from the receiver: "Mr. Lei, what do you do for me?"

Remi could clearly feel that Xu Chuan was in a good mood from his tone.

However, Xu Chuan's side was a bit noisy, with some reverberation and some water sounds in his words.

So, she instinctively greeted: "Mr. Xu, where are you? Is this so noisy?"

"I'm in the bathroom. Are you in a hurry? If not, I'll tell you after I wash it off?" Xu Chuan said cheerfully after hearing this.

bath?

When Remy heard this, he couldn't help but raise his hand and look at his watch. It was four o'clock in the afternoon. What kind of bath was he taking at this time?

Wait, why do I keep thinking about random things? Who said you can't take a shower at four o'clock?

After throwing away these thoughts, Remi said: "Mr. Xu, there is something I want to discuss with you."

"You said."

"Can you give me a copy of your "Wandering Blue Star"? I want to read it." Remy hesitated for a while and then said.

After saying that, he quickly added: "Don't worry, I promise you, I will never tell anyone about it. I won't use it for other people. I just want to see what this story is about."

As soon as these words came out, Xu Chuan fell into silence for a while, and the only sound left in the receiver was the sound of water flowing.

But when Remy heard the sound of water flowing, his heart beat faster inexplicably.

To be honest, she knew that she shouldn't ask for this book based on her relationship with Xu Chuan.

But she still wanted to ask for it to see if she could get it.

She didn't even understand the reason.

Perhaps, it was to see if he could gain Xu Chuan's trust?

Or maybe she wanted to see if Xu Chuan could be so generous that he could even believe his own promise.

In this way, Xu Chuan was silent for nearly a minute. If it weren't for the continuous sound of water flowing, Remi would have thought that the signal was interrupted.

"Okay, where are you now?"

This "Okay" made Remi feel an inexplicable emotion welling up in her heart. Her tone instantly became much gentler and she replied: "I'm in the capital."

The office of Ziyi Media is in Beijing.

"The capital? I'm in Shanghai now." Xu Chuan thought for a moment after hearing this, and then continued, "Well, if you are in a hurry, I will ask my sister to send you a copy. She is in the capital."

Xu Chuan had some books placed in the house where Shen Huajin originally lived.

"Your sister?"

"Shen Pingan, my master's granddaughter."

"So that's it." Remy nodded after hearing this.

Then, as if he thought of something, he hurriedly said: "Mr. Xu, don't bother my sister. Give it to me another day when I go to Shanghai or when you come to the capital. I'm reading "The Three-Body Problem" now, and I'm still reading "The Three-Body Problem". I haven’t finished reading yet.”

The reason for saying this is that Remy didn't want to waste such a good excuse to meet Xu Chuan.

She really wanted to see Xu Chuan more, but she never had the right opportunity.

Borrowing books now and returning them later, isn’t this just two more reasonable reasons?
Xu Chuan did not refuse when he heard this, but nodded and said: "Okay, then I'll contact you directly. Is there anything else?"

"No... no more."

"Then hang up. My hands are wet and it's inconvenient."

"Oh, okay." Remi was about to hang up the phone when she heard this, but suddenly she remembered something again, so she stopped hanging up the phone.

Xu Chuan on the other side saw that the call was still on the phone and deliberately joked: "Mr. Lei, you don't have the habit of listening to people taking a bath, do you?"

"No...no, no." Remy stuttered when he heard this.

"Then what?"

Hearing Xu Chuan's doubts, Remi hesitated again. After a while, she gritted her teeth and asked: "Mr. Xu, there is one more thing I want to ask you. Are you and Teacher Qiu not having trouble at all?" turn?"

As soon as these words came out, Xu Chuan couldn't help but pause while bathing. He looked up at Qiu Yicheng, who was brushing her teeth and gargling at the sink not far from him. He took a breath and replied: "Yes."

After receiving this answer, Remi continued to ask: "So you and Teacher Qiu deliberately acted for Xu Cihua?"

"Yes." Xu Chuan answered faster this time.

"When you took over the "Samsung Copper Tower", was it the same..."

This time, before Remy had even finished asking the question, Xu Chuan answered directly: "Yes."

There is nothing to hide.

As long as Remy wasn't a fool, it wouldn't take long for him to discover these problems.

On the other end of the phone, Remi's expression became complicated as she listened to the three "yes"s from Xu Chuan. She said with self-deprecation, "Have you been treating me and Xu Cihua as fools for so long?"

"That's not the case." Xu Chuan decisively denied this question.

Without waiting for Remy to reply, he continued: "The problem of information gap has nothing to do with stupidity or not. If I don't have these few things that you can't expect, I will really be overturned by you."

"Really?" Remy said with some disbelief.

"Yes, so don't hold back and punish me every day. I am also a miserable person. You said you are making money and fooling the people behind it. Why are you always working so hard?" Xu Chuan led Said in a joking tone.

"It's all Xu Cihua's idea, it's none of my business." There was a hint of coquettishness in Remi's tone that she didn't even notice.

"Yeah, I think so too. Okay, I've finished washing, and we'll talk when we have time."

"Okay." After hearing this, Remy took off the phone and hung up.

After hanging up, she held her phone in a daze for a while, and then made another call.

After being connected, she said: "I think we still need to invest more budget in promoting Qiu Yicheng's foreign album."

"I know that the investment has reached the critical point, and the cost-effectiveness of further investment is not high. But you should really take a look at the public opinion on the domestic Internet now. People in Xuchuan are now blooming in both literature and art, and their influence is growing.

You don't know how much influence this kind of youth idol has on teenagers.In this case, we must praise Qiu Yicheng.Otherwise, who will help us hedge Xu Chuan’s public influence in the future? "

"They fell out. Xu Chuan and Qiu Yicheng must have fallen out. This conclusion was reached by Xu Cihua before. If you don't believe it, can I still believe him?"

Mr. Xu made it clear at the time that Qiu Yicheng and Xu Chuan were love rivals. They pursued Lin Mengying together and eventually turned against each other. "

"Yes, I didn't believe it at first, but isn't Mr. Xu from Qiu Yicheng's circle? This is equivalent to being a professional. I must trust the judgment of professionals. Are you right?"

"Okay, that's it, then invest 20% more resources, okay, okay, that's it for now."

After hanging up, Remy looked at his phone, the smile on his face getting bigger and bigger.

When she was happy, she threw her phone aside.

She even started to hum the song "Mrs. Luxury Fragrance" that Xu Chuan had casually sang in front of her before.

Of course, the humming was just a little off-key.

As time goes by, the popularity of the topic "The Three-Body Problem" seems to be declining, but in fact the popularity is constantly increasing.

Because more and more people are getting the book, more and more people are reading it seriously.

Its influence has gradually sunk from impetuousness on the Internet to a more solid market.

This is actually what Xu Chuan really wants. If the chaotic popularity on the Internet continues, it will not be a good thing.

It was during this process that the promotion of "Sugar" began to be carried out simultaneously at home and abroad. Soon, the MV will be officially launched.

(End of this chapter)